dyngja
Icelandic edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
dyngja f (genitive singular dyngju, nominative plural dyngjur)
Declension edit
declension of dyngja
f-w1 | singular | plural | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | dyngja | dyngjan | dyngjur | dyngjurnar |
accusative | dyngju | dyngjuna | dyngjur | dyngjurnar |
dative | dyngju | dyngjunni | dyngjum | dyngjunum |
genitive | dyngju | dyngjunnar | dyngja | dyngjanna |
Old Norse edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Proto-Germanic *dungijǭ (“secluded room, bower”), from the Proto-Indo-European root *dʰengʰ- (“to cover”).
Noun edit
dyngja f
- a bower
Derived terms edit
Etymology 2 edit
From Proto-Germanic *dungijǭ (“covering, pile”), from the Proto-Indo-European root *dʰengʰ- (“to cover, overcast”).
Noun edit
dyngja f
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
- Icelandic: dyngja
- Faroese: dyngja (“heap, pile, multitude, crowd”)
- Norn: dongja (“heap, pile”)
- Norwegian Bokmål: dynge
- Norwegian Nynorsk: dyngje (“heap, pile”)
- Old Swedish: dyngia
- Swedish: dynga
- Danish: dynge
- Gutnish: dyngge, dynggå
References edit
- “dyngja”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press